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The University of Bremen, MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences is offering a fixed-term position for a

Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d)
Salary Scale EG 13 TV-L

from the next possible date for 2 years (in accordance with § 2 WissZeitVG).

The position is to be filled with 100% of the regular weekly working hours (39.2 hours/week). Part-time work is generally possible. Details are to be agreed with MARUM if necessary.

As part of the ANK (Natural Climate Protection Action Program) funded project LABLUC - brown algae as potential for carbon storage near Helgoland (Blue Carbon; https://www.z-u-g.org/ank-meere-und-kuesten/projekt/labluc/), the University of Bremen has a vacancy in the Carbon Sequestration and Glycobiochemistry working group (https://www.marum.de/en/Carbon-Sequestration-and-Glycobiochemistry.html). The successful candidate will work within a MARUM-coordinated consortium that also includes groups at Kiel University, the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel and the Schleswig-Holstein State Office for the Environment (LfU). The main aim of LABLUC is to investigate the potential of brown algae to sequester carbon around the island of Helgoland - Germany's only high seas island.

The specific tasks include:

• Planning of and participation in ship-based sampling of sediment cores with a gravity corer off Helgoland
• Quantification of fucoidan carbon storage in sediments
• Support of algae incubations on Helgoland and seawater sampling off Helgoland in order to determine fucoidan exudation rates by brown algae as well as fucoidan aggregation and sinking in the water column
• Collaboration with project partners at Kiel University to assess the carbon storage capacity of brown algae on Helgoland using a model
• Cooperation with national partners of ANK-funded partner projects for the determination of fucoidan in sediments in and around seagrass meadows in the Baltic Sea
• Willingness to travel abroad for international conferences to network and present project results
• (Co-)Supervision of students within the project
• Writing project reports
• Publication of the results in international journals

Prerequisites:

• Completed scientific university degree (Master/University diploma) and completed doctorate in natural sciences in marine biochemistry, glycobiochemistry, chemistry, geosciences or related subjects
• Excellent knowledge in the field of marine glycobiochemistry
• Excellent knowledge in the analysis of poly- and monosaccharides using anion exchange chromatography and high-resolution mass spectrometry (MALDI-Orbitrap MS and ESI-Orbitrap MS) including proficiency in software for data processing and analysis, e.g., R or Python
• Basic knowledge in enzymology and biochemistry for glycan analysis
• Experience with sampling brown algae
• Willingness to participate in expeditions lasting several weeks
• Written and spoken English (at least CEF level B2)

We offer you, among other things:

• Annual special payment (‘Christmas bonus’), regular automatic salary increases in line with collective agreements and additional public service pension scheme (VBL)
• A crisis-proof, interesting and varied job in an open-minded university
• 30 days' holiday per calendar year and educational leave
• A diverse, future-orientated and open corporate culture
• Support from a collegial, motivated team with a positive working atmosphere
• Personalised induction training
• The opportunity for further and advanced training
• Compatibility of family and career through flexible working hours (flexitime) and the option of mobile working (subject to the general conditions)
• Free social and family counselling services
• Active company health management, including the option of discounts at local sports clubs, gyms and swimming pools (EGYM WELLPASS)
• The option of using a job ticket for local public transport
• Numerous sports and cultural activities
• Varied catering options in the student union canteens

Open to unconventional approaches in research and teaching, the University of Bremen has retained its character as a place of short distances for people and ideas since its founding in 1971. With a broad spectrum of subjects, we combine exceptional performance and innovative potential. As an ambitious research university, we stand for research-based learning approaches and a pronounced interdisciplinary orientation. We actively pursue scientific cooperation in a spirit of global partnership.

Today, around 23,000 people learn, teach, research, and work on our international campus. In research and teaching, administration and operations, we are strongly committed to the goals of sustainability, climate justice, and climate neutrality. Our Bremen spirit is expressed in the courage to try new things, in supportive cooperation, in respect and appreciation for each other. With our study and research profile and as part of the European YUFE network, we assume social responsibility in the region, in Europe, and in the world.

The university is family-friendly, diverse and sees itself as an international university. We therefore welcome all applicants regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.

As the University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of female employees in science, women are particularly encouraged to apply. In the case of equal qualifications, women are given priority, unless reasons relating to the person of a competitor prevail.

Disabled applicants will be given priority if their professional and personal qualifications are essentially the same.

For general questions about the personnel selection procedure and for questions about the content of the advertised position, please contact: Prof. Dr. Jan-Hendrik Hehemann (jhhehemann@marum.de).

Please send your application with your complete documents (cover letter, curriculum vitae, proof of qualification, certificates) to the following address, quoting the reference number A203-25 until 12.08.2025 as a PDF file by unencrypted electronic mail to: bewerbung-a20325@marum.de

or by mail to:

Universität Bremen, MARUM
Prof. Dr. Jan-Hendrik Hehemann
AG Kohlenstoffspeicherung und Glykobiochemie
Leobener Str. 8
28359 Bremen

Please note that no photos are to be attached to the application documents.

We kindly ask you to send us only copies (no portfolios) of your application documents, as we cannot return them. Once the selection process has been completed, your application documents will be stored in accordance with legal requirements and then destroyed.

Any costs for the application process cannot be reimbursed.